Whats in Feinstein’s New Civilian Disarmament Bill

What the bill does:

The legislation bans the sale, transfer, manufacturing and importation of:

All semiautomatic rifles that can accept a detachable magazine and have at least one military feature: pistol grip; forward grip; folding, telescoping, or detachable stock; grenade launcher or rocket launcher; barrel shroud; or threaded barrel.

All semiautomatic pistols that can accept a detachable magazine and have at least one military feature: threaded barrel; second pistol grip; barrel shroud; capacity to accept a detachable magazine at some location outside of the pistol grip; or semiautomatic version of an automatic firearm.

All semiautomatic rifles and handguns that have a fixed magazine with the capacity to accept more than 10 rounds.

All semiautomatic shotguns that have a folding, telescoping, or detachable stock; pistol grip; fixed magazine with the capacity to accept more than 5 rounds; ability to accept a detachable magazine; forward grip; grenade launcher or rocket launcher; or shotgun with a revolving cylinder.

All ammunition feeding devices (magazines, strips, and drums) capable of accepting more than 10 rounds.

157 specifically-named firearms (listed at the end of this page).

The legislation excludes the following weapons from the bill:

Any weapon that is lawfully possessed at the date of the bill’s enactment;

Any firearm manually operated by a bolt, pump, lever or slide action;

Assault weapons used by military, law enforcement, and retired law enforcement; and

Antique weapons.

The legislation protects hunting and sporting firearms:

The bill excludes 2,258 legitimate hunting and sporting rifles and shotguns by specific make and model.

The legislation strengthens the 1994 Assault Weapons Ban and state bans by:

Moving from a 2-characteristic test to a 1-characteristic test.

The bill also makes the ban harder to evade by eliminating the easy-to-remove bayonet mounts and flash suppressors from the characteristics test.

Banning dangerous aftermarket modifications and workarounds.

Bump or slide fire stocks, which are modified stocks that enable semi-automatic weapons to fire at rates similar to fully automatic machine guns.

So-called “bullet buttons” that allow the rapid replacement of ammunition magazines, frequently used as a workaround to prohibitions on detachable magazines.

Thumbhole stocks, a type of stock that was created as a workaround to avoid prohibitions on pistol grips.

Adding a ban on the importation of assault weapons and large-capacity magazines.

Eliminating the 10-year sunset that allowed the original federal ban to expire.

The legislation addresses the millions of assault weapons and large-capacity magazines currently in existence by:

Requiring a background check on all sales or transfers of a grandfathered assault weapon.

This background check can be run through the FBI or, if a state chooses, initiated with a state agency, as with the existing background check system.

Prohibiting the sale or transfer of large-capacity ammunition feeding devices lawfully possessed on the date of enactment of the bill.

Allowing states and localities to use federal Byrne JAG grant funds to conduct a voluntary buy-back program for grandfathered assault weapons and large-capacity ammunition feeding devices.

Imposing a safe storage requirement for grandfathered firearms, to keep them away from prohibited persons.

Requiring that assault weapons and large-capacity ammunition feeding devices manufactured after the date of the bill’s enactment be engraved with the serial number and date of manufacture of the weapon

Assault weapon bans have been proven to be effective

The 1994 Assault Weapons Ban was effective at reducing crime and getting these military-style weapons off our streets. Since the ban expired, more than 350 people have been killed and more than 450 injured by these weapons.

A Justice Department study of the assault weapons ban found that it was responsible for a 6.7% decrease in total gun murders, holding all other factors equal.

The same study also found that “Assault weapons are disproportionately involved in murders with multiple victims, multiple wounds per victim, and police officers as victims.”

The use of assault weapons in crime declined by more than two-thirds by about nine years after 1994 Assault Weapons Ban took effect.

Source: Christopher S. Koper, “An Updated Assessment of the Federal Assault Weapons Ban: Impacts on Gun Markets and Gun Violence, 1994-2003” (June 2004), University of Pennsylvania, Report to the National Institute of Justice, U.S. Department of Justice.

The percentage of firearms seized by police in Virginia that had high-capacity magazines dropped significantly during the ban. That figure has doubled since the ban expired.

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When presenting this bill, Feinstein said, “..If 20 dead children in Newtown wasn’t a wakeup call that these weapons of war don’t belong on our streets, I don’t know what is.” (Jan 24, 2013) a full 5 days after NBC admitted their previous reports that an assault rifle was used in Newtown by Lanza, were completely false. NBC is still erroneously reporting an unused AR was left in the trunk, but in fact, it was a shotgun. AR’s are already banned in CT. http://current.com/community/94026289_nbc-admitted-no-assault-rifle-used-in-newtown-shooting.htm?xid=RSSfeed

See bases her evidence on a Justice Department report by Roth and Koper. Biased. Just one and we know the Justice Department can be trusted. One fell swoop and she wipes out the firearms industry in the United States. How many jobs will that take? What about the trickle down effect?

There ya go… The Left has been drooling for years for the opportunity to “not let a good tragedy go to waste” and pull this. Their true agenda has NOTHING to do with reducing gun crime, and EVERYTHING to do with disarming law-abiding citizens to usurp power over We the People, while destroying the hurdle to the Left known as the Constitution… Oh, and let’s kill Capitolism while we’re at it!

The fact that she has exploited a total lie to get it done comes as no surprise… Typical behavior of a Socialist / Marxist / Communist
democRAT…of which she’s representative of the most corrupted sort. Oh, btw…let’s not forget of her admitted hypocracy… She carries a gun herself! Typical… Do as I say, not as I do… A true “elitist statist”.

The truth that the kids were killed with a shotgun, not an “assault” style weapon, merely proves the true EVILNESS behind the left’s agenda… And where the TRUE danger lies!

“Gun-free zones”, such as schools, theatres, Post Offices, State Capitol buildings, etc… Ironic how that seems to be where these tragedies are taking place, huh? Get real, ya morons.

Some Americans, (aka :The Left), refuse to look at the facts, history, and reality. Instead, they’re driven by emotions, feelings, good intentions… Hence, their decision making process is terrible…Pathetic, really.

Wake up America! We’ve seen this entire scenario played out before in recent history… America witnessed what happened to the nieve and ignorant German people who were dumb enough to fall for the same Socialistic agenda…and the rise of Adolph Hitler was the result!

Adolph said the same things this administration and the Left is saying in America today… And the similarities of he and Obama’s past, including how they rose to power, are quite astonishing.

Are we going to be ignorant and forgetful of past history?
How does the saying go? “Those who fail to remember history are doomed to repeat it?”

The hour is late! It’s time these commies were driven out and our country’s cancer eradicated with a good old dose of Constitutional radiation!!

If we fail, then history shall surely repeat itself, and the good ‘ole USA is doomed to become another Nazi Germany.

All it takes to loose freedom is for good men to do nothing.

These tyrants must be defeated for America, freedom, and Liberty to survive.

Just in case some freedom – hating Leftist wants to spew some vile hatred my way concerning my post, I thought I’d post some quotes from someone who was a real American…

“Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither safety nor liberty.

When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.

He that lieth down with dogs shall rise up with fleas.

Never confuse motion with action.

This will be the best security for maintaining our liberties. A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins.

Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature.

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become more corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.”

Anyone remember our American History classes? (At least, back in the day before dumbed-down, government-run Public Schools and the removal of such history being taught, that is?)

For those who have no clue who said these wise words, I’ll be glad to tell you who it was…

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN.

You know, one of those “stupid Founding Fathers” the left hates and curses these days….